The sad part about life is we tend to comment only on those who do it wrong and neglect to balance it with praise for those who do it rightKeith Ready

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InspirEmail No 330 - September 2018 - Volunteer VictimsInspirational messages to refresh the spirit and boost
the emotional bank account'

Volunteer Victims

It's a great temptation to volunteer as a victim.
Do you know that we sign up for that job?

A man who dined regularly in his favourite
restaurant complained about the bread. It wasn't fair, he emphasized, that
other restaurants served lots of bread. But here he gets only one piece.
So the next time he came in, they served him four pieces. He still complained
it wasn't enough.

On his next visit his server brought him a dozen pieces
of bread. The man still complained.

For his next visit they put a large basket of bread
on the table. But still he complained. 'The other restaurants give all the
bread you can eat.'

They decided to be ready for him the next day. They
had an enormous loaf of bread prepared. It was six feet long and two feet wide.
Four people carried the loaf to his table. They plopped it down in front of
him. It took up half the table and hung over both sides. The chef stood back,
pleased with himself, to see how the customer would react.

He looked over the loaf and commented, 'So, we're
back to one piece again, are we?'

Like this man, we volunteer to be victims, but in
more subtle ways. We believe life is unfair, people are untrustworthy and we
are getting a bad shake. We think everyone should know just how terrible things
are and we feel obliged to tell them.

One man says of a friend that he hates to ask her
how she is feeling because he knows ahead of time what she will say. 'You get
an organ recital from her,' he says. She dwells on her health problems to the
exclusion of everything good in her life.

The problem is, life sometimes is unfair and we can
be victimized. But the greater truth is, people can decide whether they are
victims or are victors. They can feel helpless and miserable, or they can try
to feel strong. Happy people have learned that they cannot always control their
circumstances, but they can often control how they will respond.

Lewis Dunning said, 'What life means to us is
determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to
life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.'

You were born to be a victor! You were meant to be
happy! Will you claim your birthright today?

Author
Steve Goodier

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